"How about we each do our own thing and then see who's faster?"
Xie Xiao said, "Shouldn't you be in charge of poisoning, setting fires, and holding them off in front, while we carry the stuff from behind? With your small frame..."
"What, you look down on women?" Li Ruo said unhappily, "You saw it last time too, you really can't move things as fast as me. After we get out, I will definitely keep my word and split the profits 50/50 with you."
Xie Xiao scoffed, "That's because you haven't seen my true speed. To be on the safe side, you go first and I'll follow."
"no."
Forget it.
After a minute of standoff.
“Okay, I’ll reluctantly do it this once,” Li Ruo said. After all, they would be neighbors in the future and would see each other all the time, so it wouldn’t be good to have a strained relationship. “But whatever I do in front, don’t worry about it. You can move things in the back, and we’ll split the profits fifty-fifty.”
There's plenty of stuff to move up there, isn't there?
Xie Xiao: ...You're still reluctant to go for a 50/50 split? This is the first time I've met a woman like this.
But he couldn't see through her, nor could he see through her accomplice...
If we don't cooperate with her, we'll all go our own way, and things might go wrong. "Okay."
"Sister, what are you talking about?" Li Yi walked over.
Li Ruo said, "Come here and talk about building the house."
"Here, even here, and this..."
Xie Xiao: Is that all? He thought the "small piece of land" she mentioned would be quite large.
But actually, the land Li Ruo wanted wasn't very big.
The flat area is estimated to be two or three thousand square meters, but she only wanted six or seven hundred square meters. Too small would be unsuitable for defense, let alone protecting her family, she couldn't even protect herself, so there would be no point in building it. Too big... do you think fortresses are so easy to build?
They don't have much time left!
“I’ve thought about the place my cousin mentioned. Since it’s such an auspicious spot, let’s not waste it. Let’s keep it for now and build a cenotaph for Father and my elder brother after the flood,” Li Ruo said.
The eldest sister-in-law nodded vigorously, "Okay, okay!" This way, she could live with her husband, and she excitedly hugged Li Ruo.
"But sister, I'm a little scared to live up in the mountains," the little brother said.
Li Ruo noticed that her adopted younger brother was a bit timid. "Don't worry, Dad and my brother will protect us, and there are so many big brothers from Black Wind Stronghold down below."
Brothers of Black Wind Stronghold: What do you mean they're down there? They're down in another ravine, not underground.
From now on, your whole family should not urinate down there casually, understand?
Even splashing water used for washing feet won't work.
"Boss, are we just going to let them go like this?" a brother who deeply hated the corrupt official asked. "She's the prefect's wife."
“She’s already turned against us,” Xie Xiao said, flicking his bangs at the side.
The brothers were dumbfounded.
Damn, yet another woman has succumbed to the boss's damn masculine charm—and this time it's the prefect's wife.
The boss is truly powerful!
ox!
The brothers looked at their leader with deep respect.
Li Ruo was about to start building the house immediately and didn't have time to entertain them.
The Black Wind Stronghold brothers were also busy, leaving Sun Ergou behind while the others followed their leader and retreated first.
Li Ruo and Master Liao took a walk around the small "territory".
Master Liao was worried that the project was beyond his area of expertise and felt somewhat uncertain.
Li Ruo had no choice but to draw design drawings for him while explaining. Fortunately, due to her previous profession, she had learned a variety of things, and the products in the mall all had instruction manuals, so it was not difficult for her.
The house is 200 square meters, with five bedrooms, a small living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a storage room. It is a single-story building with an observation deck built on top.
The exterior walls of the house need to be windproof, rainproof, earthquakeproof, and hailproof. Forty-eight walls are sufficient. The reinforced concrete frame and the roof are reinforced with special steel bars, so it is not afraid of being hit by stones.
A wall must be built around the house.
The wall was as high as the city wall, and in the Dayin era it was six meters high, representing the average level of thieves during that period.
However, Li Ruo also added barbed wire around the wall and electrified it, greatly upgrading its defensive capabilities.
As for how to get the electricity, she plans to draw a canal from the waterfall into the yard, install a water turbine generator, and exchange it for a 50-kilowatt one at the mall, which should be enough.
During the great flood, there was not much of anything except water.
Of course, this is to protect ordinary people and small groups of refugees. But if it is a large-scale siege by the army, even the most impregnable walls will be destroyed.
There are risks, of course, but we can't just not do it.
Master Liao listened as if he were hearing a divine book, finding it even more mysterious than the teachings of Huang-Lao.
"I only have one question: can it be built in a month?" Master Liao asked.
"It's not a month, it's ten days." Anyone who has ever built a house knows that if you tell the contractor it will take a month, he'll drag it out for at least three months.
Three months later, the flood had already washed away the Dragon King Temple.
She can't wait.
Using what's available, and considering she and Xie Xiao are now business partners, borrowing a few people from him shouldn't be too much of a problem, especially if it's for a fee.
In addition, she also wanted to hire several people with high salaries, including a bodyguard for her grandmother and the others when she was not on the mountain, a cleaning lady, and a midwife who was always on standby, so that she would feel more at ease.
Look, her arrival has created many job opportunities for Black Wind Village. Isn't that great?
It's better to have more friends than more enemies. Of course, Boss Xie can refuse, and she can go outside to find someone else.
In the evening, Xie Xiao received the job offer and agreement brought back by Sun Ergou, and his eyes twitched as he read them.
Fifty craftsmen skilled in masonry work were paid 200 cash a day, or could exchange it for rice at the market price.
Two guards were assigned to the residence, each receiving a monthly salary of ten taels of silver (equivalent to that of a prefect).
One maidservant... one midwife...
"Heh, she's thought of everything quite thoroughly."
"Boss, to be honest, there's no such reward in the surrounding area. Even I'm thinking... cough, what I mean is, helping others is also helping yourself. The prefect's wife said that this is called win-win cooperation."
Sun Ergou heard a lot of new words today.
Although I didn't understand most of it.
Xie Xiao gave him a tough challenge: "You weren't bribed by her, were you? Also, you're not allowed to say the words 'Madam Prefect' again."
"Why?"
"Many of my brothers don't get along with Song Zhijing, and I'm afraid they'll misunderstand that I'm colluding with the government, so I'm too lazy to explain to them one by one."
Sun Ergou: "Oh."
Xie Xiao asked again, "Besides these, didn't she tell you anything else?"
"What did you say?" Er Gou was a little confused.
"For example, it's dark now and they haven't come down the mountain yet. Aren't they hungry? Don't they want to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain?"
Seeing that Er Gou was still confused, Xie Xiao said, "...You mean she didn't beg me to take them in?"
"Oh." Er Gou finally understood. "Boss, look at how roundabout you've been. But... there isn't one!"
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